hierarchy词典解释

1. 等级制度
2. 统治集团，领导层
3. 【生】级系，阶系
4. 【宗】天使团，天使的级别
5. 【动、植】分类等级
6. 【计】分层
7. 层，层次
8. 层次体系
9. 僧侣统治（集团）
10. 阶级组织
11. 教士政治，僧侣政治

1. a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system;

   "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values"
   

2. the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body

1.等级制度
Ahierarchy is a system of organizing people into different ranks or levels of importance, for example in society or in a company.

e.g. Like most other American companies with a rigidhierarchy, workers and managers had strictly defined duties...
和其他多数拥有严格等级制度的美国公司一样，这里的工人和管理人员都有界定严格的职责。
e.g. She rose up the Toryhierarchy by the local government route...
她通过地方的渠道在保守党的等级制度中一步步地晋升。

2.（组织中的）掌权集团，统治集团
Thehierarchy of an organization such as the Church is the group of people who manage and control it.

3.（思想、信仰的）等级体系，分级结构
Ahierarchy of ideas and beliefs involves organizing them into a system or structure.

hierarchy

e.g. ...the notion of 'cultural imperialism' implies ahierarchy of cultures, some of which are stronger than others.
“文化扩张主义”意味着一种文化等级体系的存在，其中有些文化要比其他文化更强大。

• rigid hierarchy of power森严的权力等级
• academic hierarchy学术机构
• the ruling hierarchy统治集团

• church hierarchy教堂统治集团

• hierarchy of moral values道德准则的层次

• The hierarchy of the Churchsfrom bishops to parish priestsssurvived everywhere.

  出自：A. Briggs

• ☆ 14世纪中期进入英语，直接源自中古拉丁语的hierarchia，意为等级制度。